Haiti: Monsanto

4.2.12

Haiti: Monsanto: [thepublicarchive.com]

Following the disaster, Monsanto donated money to the recovery, but it was clear a donation of our products – quality corn and vegetable seeds – could really make a difference in the lives of Haitians.

“Monsanto Donates Corn and Vegetable Seeds to Haiti,” Monsanto.com (2010)

“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides.

Beverly Bell, “Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds,” Truthout (May 17, 2010)

While these seeds are free initially, Monsanto has intellectual rights to all their seeds and farmers must buy these seeds every year to grow these plants.

Jasmine Greene, “No Monsanto in Haiti,” Care2.com (June, 2010)